A re­volver, sev­er­al rounds of am­mu­ni­tion, and a quan­ti­ty of cannabis were seized by of­fi­cers of the North East­ern Di­vi­sion dur­ing a fo­cused an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in the Mor­vant dis­trict on Fri­day, May 16, 2025.

An an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion con­duct­ed in the South­ern Di­vi­sion ear­li­er to­day re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of one in­di­vid­ual and the seizure of a quan­ti­ty of il­le­gal drugs and am­mu­ni­tion.

Of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion con­duct­ed a se­ries of co­or­di­nat­ed an­ti-crime, drug block, and road traf­fic op­er­a­tions across Ch­agua­nas, Cou­va, Freeport, Long­denville, and sur­round­ing ar­eas on Fri­day, May 16, 2025.

The 33-year-old was re­port­ed­ly dri­ving along Belle Eau Road, Bel­mont, around 5 a.m. to­day when a car with two gun­men sped past and opened fire on his ve­hi­cle.

For­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les yes­ter­day slammed his suc­ces­sor, Bar­ry Padarath, over the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to scrap the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion’s Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) trans­for­ma­tion plan.

This was the ad­vice from the T&T Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) yes­ter­day, as it is­sued a Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert for T&T, which comes in­to ef­fect at 6 pm to­day un­til 6 pm to­mor­row.

Act­ing Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP), Op­er­a­tions, Curt Si­mon, has or­dered an au­dit in­to all po­lice uni­forms, ve­hi­cles and com­put­ers be­long­ing to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

Rel­a­tives of a woman who re­port­ed­ly kid­napped an 11-month-old ba­by boy and took him to To­ba­go, where she hand­ed him over to her ex-boyfriend, ex­pressed shock as they at­tempt­ed to process the bizarre act.

The Gov­ern­ment has de­cid­ed to “re­strain” Vy­bz Kar­tel from per­form­ing some songs deemed to be vul­gar when he vis­its this coun­try lat­er this month for a con­cert. It is al­so con­sid­er­ing in­sti­tut­ing an age lim­it for those at­tend­ing the event. The de­ci­sion comes as the Ja­maican dance­hall artiste, re­al name, Adid­ja Palmer, said he had no is­sue with the re­stric­tions be­ing im­posed on him in T&T.

Crim­i­nol­o­gist and for­mer chair­man of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) Prof Ramesh De­osaran says the Gov­ern­ment has a re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to make clear its stance on the re­sump­tion of the death penal­ty.

T&T Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) pres­i­dent Mar­tin Lum Kin is con­cerned that the re-in­tro­duc­tion of the lap­top pro­gramme by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress-led Gov­ern­ment could lead to mis­use and what he called aca­d­e­m­ic dis­hon­esty.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo be­lieves the Prime Min­is­ter has been pel­lu­cid on Gov­ern­ment’s po­si­tion on prop­er­ty tax re­funds for those who have al­ready paid.